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Meanings of dispassionate in English

Unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice.

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Without emotion or feeling.

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Examples for "cold-blooded"
Examples for "cold-blooded"
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By the time they are 18 they are cold-blooded assassins, Rojas said.
Reuters
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Kidnappings, bombings and cold-blooded executions left the Tupamaros' romantic reputation in tatters.
The Guardian
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She could use a knife with cold-blooded efficiency if the need arose.
A river in the sky
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We are intensely indignant at this term; we consider it so cold-blooded.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
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If that's the way it happened, we're talking about a cold-blooded bastard.
The girl with the dragon tattoo
Usage of dispassionate in English
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Fortunately in President Li Yuan-hung China had a cool and dispassionate statesman.
The Fight for the Republic in China
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The images come across as cool, dispassionate documentations rather than artful inventions.
The Irish Times
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This character gives the book a dispassionate machine's-eye-view of military technology development.
Wired
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He'd recovered his composure, begun a dispassionate examination as a police officer.
Agent 6
5
The most dispassionate examination of this report was given by Archdeacon Hutchins.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II
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He was speaking in a voice toneless, dispassionate, but weighted with finality.
Where the Sun Swings North
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When he spoke about it, his tone was remarkably downbeat and dispassionate.
The Guardian
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But, Miners Shot Down is not a dispassionate review of the facts.
The South African
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One dispassionate argument is more valuable than a shower of missile names.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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Even when characters' lives are in danger, the writing is oddly dispassionate.
The Guardian
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But if science is dispassionate, mathematics is even more austere and impersonal.
Four-Dimensional Vistas
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Bredon was calm and dispassionate as a butcher with a boning knife.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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Ignorance, prejudice, the force of habit, continually interfere to prevent dispassionate judgment.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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Maupassant's, detached, dispassionate tone somehow makes the horror all the more devastating.
The Irish Times
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I'm up here, and I can take a dispassionate view of things.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
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She ceased, and his eyes were still upon her, calm, thoughtful, dispassionate.
The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale
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Dispassionate through the time
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